Well, if you can separate support for the police from circle-the-wagons knee-jerk defense of the police, then fine, keep the flag. But I think a few bad apples tends to spoil things.
Okay. Police and decent citizens on one side of the line and the degenerate, drug using, lazy, deviant criminal populace on the other.
Cry havoc, let loose the dogs of war.—Shakespeare
Los Angeles has the right idea for the wrong reason. If you allow the ‘Thin Blue Line’ flag, then why not also some other version of the US flag? Why not a flag with a yellow stripe or one with a green stripe, etc.? Such flags exist.
The US flag is one of the few things that still hold this country together. Leave it alone. Don’t modify it for any cause, as good as that cause might be.
From August 2022...
Of course. And the BLM and Rainbow flags are oh so inclusive . . .
Los Angeles is doomed.
“Liberals despise the police,”
But they don’t despise their armed security e.g.: Cori Bush will pay $200K for private security
Too bad, I’ll still wear my blue line flag t-shirt in crowds this summer.
More criminal democrat party government.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Does he look like Jabba the Hutt?
I don’t like representing the flag with modifications to it.
Police officers disproportionately target criminals
Yep
(getting tough to correct media, even The Blaze.)
LAPD has become communist.
I would not trust anyone still there.
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Fact Check-California bill allows non-citizens with work ...https://www.reuters.com › factcheck-california-police
3 days ago — A California bill allows non-citizens with valid work authorization to become police officers.
REUTERS FACT CHECK
JANUARY 11, 20239:27 AMUPDATED 2 DAYS AGO
Fact Check-California bill allows non-citizens with work permits to become police officers
By Reuters Fact Check
4 MIN READ
A California bill allows non-citizens with valid work authorization to become police officers. The bill does not extend those rights to those without legal migratory status, however, contrary to what is being shared by posts on social media.
The text in one post (here) reads: “SB-960 changes California law so that police officers no longer need to be either US Citizens or even legally in the country. So if you are arrested it can be by an otherwise illegal alien. Gee whiz.”
Another post reads, in part, “The bill makes no distinction between legal and illegal immigrants.” (here)
The posts refer to bill SB-960, which can be seen (here), introduced on Feb. 9, 2022, by California State Senator Nancy Skinner.
“The bill would remove the provision that requires peace officers to either be a citizen of the United States or be a permanent resident who is eligible for and has applied for citizenship, and would instead require peace officers be legally authorized to work in the United States, and make conforming changes,” the bill reads.
Peace officers is a term used to refer to different law enforcement positions, such as a police officer or a sheriff (here).
A March 18, 2022 hearing of the Senate Committee on Public Safety (page 4) (here) clarified that: “Among the categories of work-authorized non-citizens that would likely be eligible are permanent workers (immigrant visa based on employment), asylees and refugees, and individuals who are protected under the Program of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).”
Robert Gammon, spokesperson for Skinner, told Reuters via email that the claim is false, saying, “SB 960 only allows noncitizens with full federal legal work authorization to become police officers in California.”
This is also stated in the Senate analysis of the bill (here) (titled “08/15/2022 - Senate Floor Analysis”) on page 3.
It is a violation of federal law to work in the U.S. without valid work authorization (here), (here), (here).
VERDICT
Partly False. Bill SB-960 amends the requirement that police officers have to be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and allow non-citizens with valid work authorization to hold the position.
Correction Jan. 12, 2023: Changes verb tense in headline, paragraph 1 and verdict when talking about SB-960. The bill was signed into law on Sept. 29, 2022.
This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work here .
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
On one hand the cops obey orders from their government masters. On the other hand, they obey the orders of government masters that hate them.
WHY THE HELL is there even a single cop in these woke hell holes? Especially a white cops who has to deal with black neighborhoods.
<< He declared, “I directed to have the item taken down from the public lobby. The U.S. flag should be proudly displayed in our lobbies whenever possible. >>
And if a coordinated effort of leftists complains that Old Glory symbolizes slavery and white supremacy…?